Progressive Era Study Guide

What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

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Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?

• WEB Du Bois
• Marcus Garvey
• Booker T. Washington
• Nat Turner

Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Luke Skywalker

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Which of the following is an initiative?

• People have the right to remove a politician from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government

Which of the following is a Referendum?

• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to propose their own law
• Any law passed by the government can be voted on for approval or veto by the people

Which of the following is a Recall?

• People have the right to choose who will run for President
• People have the right to remove an elected official from office
• People have the right to propose a new law
• People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto

Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

• Upton Sinclair
• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Jacob Riis

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 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

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